The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-08-29
General and PersonaI.

Dayton preferred, ali Of the par value OF u.s.
500
General aud Personal.
Pennsylvania officials deny that the export
rate from Chicago is being cut over their line.
The Michigan Central double track between
Porter and kensipgton is completed to the Calu-
met bridge
Many miles of new fencing have been burned
along the Michigan Central road between Michl-
gan City and Hammond.
The statement that the rate for thousand mile
tickets the Pennsylvania lines west or
Pittsburg had been changed IS incorrect
Mail matter on the L. E. g. w. is so heavy
now that the route agents are frequently obliged
to bring many sacks through to Lafayette undis-
tributed.
Rumor couples the name of j. W. Morse, late
general passenger agent of the Union Pacific.
with the general passenger agency of the Chi
cago, Santa Fe & California
J. NJ Minter for years in the service of the
Pullman and Woodruff companies. has been APP
pointed division agent of the Monarch Car Com
pany with headquarters at Louisville.
Superintendent Starr, of the Fort Wayne. says
he expects to have a double track through Can
ton before cold weather sets in also that work
the double track west of Alliance is rapidly
progressing.
The difference in cost to railroad between
one thousand signs reading Look out for the
locomotive" and the same number reading
"Danger!" is $780, and it has been found that the
latter are more effective
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adopted eighty five pound rail for heavy
ice on some portions of its line. and there are
those who believe that 100 pounds will ere long
become the standard weight OF rail on our prln-
cipal roads.
It is reported at Buffalo that B. Thomas, late
superintendent of the Erie. will succeed D. b.
Mccoy, division superintendent of the West
Shore. and that Mr. Mccoy will succeed Zenas
c. Priest, division superintendent of the New
York Central
A monster ten-wheel consolidated locomotive
has just been built for the Union Pacific road
by the Grant locomotive works. It weighs one
hundred and sixty tons and has tweuty-four
inch stroke. Three others of a similar pattern
are in process of constitution.
Mr. F.. B. Papy, an old Indiana man, who
recently resigned as traffic manager of the Flor
ida Railway & Navigation Company. has ac-
cepted the position of special agent of the Sa-
vanah. Florida & Western and will have charge
OF the construction of some important extern
sions
Several new roads are now heading toward the
eastern terminus of the Rio Grande Western,
ard rumors current of negotiations pending
between this road and two of the Eastern lines.
A lease purchase of the Rio Grande Western
by one of the larger lines is the probable out
cmoe.
A Chicago dispatch says the fight between the
Northern Pacific and the Manitoba side
and the granger roads regarding the grain rates
to Minneapolis and Duluth has been compro-
missed. and the milling in transit rate will be
adopted. which, it is thought, will prevent any
rate cutting
It is said that General Manager Galloway left
the Union Pacific because President Adams in
terfered with his work. The latter gentleman
is now said to be dissatisfied with the vigorous
way in which General Manager Potter is turn
ing his Harvard College friends out of positions,
and that one or the other must be fired.
The c., II. & d. management is retrenching
expenses in every department and In in
stances at the expense of the efficiency of the
service About a year ago the company took off
the watchmen employed to guard the bridges
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other day. The lack of watchmen cost the COM
pnny $50, 000-enough to pay the salary of two
watchmen for eighty years.
The Missouri Pacific Company has asked the
Stock exchange to list block of the St. Louis.
Iron Mountain Southern stock which is in It's
treasury. This stock purchased by the
exchange of its own stock. It is reported that
the purpose of getting the Irou Mountain stock
listed is to offer it the stockholders of Texas
Pacific in exchange for their stock.
The Nypano and Erie are running five
day excursion TO New York out of Cincinnati
for s13 the round trip, $50 for ten-days trip.
The p, G. d. St l.. and b. 81 0. (via Midland)
both sent out excursions to Pittsburg from Gin
ciunati Saturday night that were practical cuts
to New York. Unless halt is called very
1t locks il travel to the East, for the residue
of the season, might be had very cheap.
Tt is believed in some quarters that the object
OF the attack Northern Pacific is to bring out an
Oregon TranscontineDtal block OF 135, 900 shares.
This block, in opposition 20 Northern Pacific
managers, has been hanging them as a
threat since Wizards time. It is alleged that it
is now proposed to force the stock out OF the
hands holding i: as collateral for Oregon Trans
continental loans, and have ii distributed on the
market
The Massachusetts, Railroad Commissioners,
in view of the many recent failures of air
brakes to work. have issued circular letter to
railroads in that State, calling attention to the
law which requires railroad companies to ''cause
to be stationed on every passenger train trusty
and skillful brakemer equal in number at least
to one for every two cars in the train, and ono
such brakeman upon tho last of every
freight train, which car must always be equipped
with a good and sufficient brake"
Calvin s. Bryce says: Tho largest holders of
Lake Erie d Western still retain their interest.
The road is doing we'll and will pay dividend.
The decline is probably due to sales by people
who have been purchasers beyond their means
l think Lake Erie q Western worth thirty
points more than it is selling for" Elsewhere it
is stated that President Cummings. of Lake
Erie d Western, had closed out his stock at high
prices but that of his Chicago friends
were not SO fortunate, and that these latter have
been the cause of the present weakness.